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December 10, 1968 Damages — Personal injuries — Assessment — Subsequent independent injury — Injuries to left leg — Subsequent amputation of leg before trial owing to other causes — Whether to be taken into account — Whether damages to be reduced — Apportionment — Principles on which Court of Appeal will interfere.

November 6, 1969 Factory — Statutory duty — Breach — Disabled workman sustaining injury while lifting weight — Told previously by employers to ask for help in lifting weights if necessary — Help readily available — Whether “employed to lift, carry or move … load so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to him” — Whether employers entitled to leave decision to ask for help to plaintiff — Safe system of work — Failure of employers to provide — Whether established — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c. 34), s. 72(1).

Knight's Industrial Law Reports goes into a new style and format as Managerial Law This issue of KILR is restyled Managerial Law and it now appears on a continuous updating basis rather than as a monthly routine affair.

The original legislation which introduced the redundancy payments scheme was the Redundancy Payments Act 1965. This was the first of the substantive statutory individual employment rights given to an employee; other individual employment rights, as for example, the right not to be unfairly dismissed, followed some years later. The Redundancy Payments Act 1965 has been repealed and the provisions on redundancy are now to be found in the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978.

June 13, 1969 Mines and quarries — Statutory duty — Breach — Conveyor belt projecting across road — Base three feet six inches above floor of road — Whether constituting “sudden change of height” of road — “System of working the mine” — Mines and Quarries Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz.II, c.70), s. 34 (1).

March 26, 1969 Damages — Personal Injuries — Quantum — Epilepsy — Epileptic subject — Almost 50/50 chance of recurring attacks — Appropriate sum — Agreed medical reports — Desirability of calling medical witnesses to assist court

March 12, 1970 Master and Servant — Hire of plant — Mechanical excavator and driver — Substitution of third party's excavator and driver — Instructions to driver by hirer — Negligence of driver — Whether driver servant of hirer — “Course of employment” — Whether third party liable for driver's negligence.

January 21, 1969 Limitation of action — Personal injuries — Extension of time — Industrial disease — Knowledge after 10 years of injury caused by work with asbestos — Death from asbestosis eight months later — Whether constructive knowledge of attributability of injury to fault of former employer — Whether reasonable for dying man to seek legal advice — Limitation Act, 1963 (c.47) ss.l(l) (2) (3), 7(3) (4) (5) (8).